"Iarnród Éireann - that's service, right down the line"

Bard

That's their motto...

Aaaaaanyway...

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it's just getting plain ridiculous, getting the train into Dublin city in the morning from anywhere on the northside (suburban train anyway). It used to be that there simply wasn't a seat to be had, more recently, there hasn't been room to actually move, now it seems the trains are so jam-packed with bodies that people are passing out due to lack of oxygen. Over this morning and yesterday morning on two differently timed trains (the 0811 and the 0903 from Donabate) I was witness to a total of 5 people fainting due to the humidity and lack of oxygen - and that's only accounting for the ONE carriage that I was in each time, so it's probably not quite as isolated!

Annoyances show and tempers flare also when trains pull into the platforms and people try to shove their ways on ahead of people in wheelchairs or on crutches and force their ways into the train before the dismounting passengers get a chance to get off.

What's the story here? What have we become?... and what can be done to fix or improve this brutally pathetic train service? I know for a fact that it will be just as bad going home this evening - any train going my way between 5 and 7pm will be just as packed... literally like a tin of sardines. It can't be safe and it can't be good for our health. Privatisation is an option, I guess- but I'd rather not see that happen - it didn't really help in the UK, did it? ...

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What do yiz think?

*sigh*... time to buy a helicopter.

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Baz_

i think we should hire in some japanese so that when trains are packed enough they can squash everyone in so noone gets left behind, that or the governmaent should push teleworking

Canaboid

2 UK workers over in our office for a couple of months refused to get the dart due to flu season/conditions on trains. They got rental cars and one got accomodation closer to office.

Shinji

ROFL, UK workers whinging about the trains in Ireland, that's a f*cking nerve.

Manach

I've gone on the bus to commute since August's little dispute at CIE. Today the combined bus lateness was only 1 hour. /Shakes head and sobs quietly in the corner/

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Shinji:
ROFL, UK workers whinging about the trains in Ireland, that's a f*cking nerve.

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Can't say I blame them... only trains I've ever used in the UK was the shuttle from Stansted to London (which was delayed, admittedly, half-way there, by about 20 mins.) and the tubes. Now while the UK rail system may not be the best in the world, that doesn't make our sh|te service any better, and ANYONE has every right to complain AND SHOULD complain about it (particularly on the northern suburban line in Dublin these days).

Something has to be done.

"Iarnród Éireann... that's service... right down the toilet".

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Lump

Are there any windows in darts?? I was in dublin working for a couple of weeks last year, And found that the darts wernt too packed in the morning (going in to work at 10) But coming home, OMFG. How do dublin stand it I cant understand.


John

Yossarian

They seem to be doing something. They have added 2 extra carriages to the first northern suburban train in the morning.

The excuse given by a DART driver for cramped conditions was that the company hadnt purchased any additional rolling stock.


Stephen.